Gigaom Bandwidth Caps Watch (8 out of 15 ISPs on the Black List)

Stacey Higginbotham ("Over 60% of US Broadband Subscribers have Data Caps" - here)  [pictured] explains that "We’re not fans of ISPs capping broadband here at Gigaom, so we’re keeping a close eye on how those caps evolve and who they affect. Check out our updated list on who’s capping your broadband .. In most cases, the companies implementing caps maintain that 99 or 98 percent of their users don’t go over them and have median usages that range between 12 and 18 GB per month. So here are the top broadband providers in the U.S. and their caps. Last year we included a column for exceptions to the cap, but this year there aren’t any, so we took that column out". 

ISPs with no caps: TWC, Verizon, Cablevision, Frontier, Windstream, Fairpoint and Cincinnati Bell. 4 ISPs have overage costs - Comcast (see "Comcast Response to Recent Claims: Higher Base Cap w/Tiered Plans or Overage Fees" - here), AT&T, Suddenlink and MediaCom.

See the full table - "Want to know if your ISP is capping data? Check our updated chart" - here.

Procera Sees DPI Deployed by USA Tier1s in 2013

 
Sanjiv Wadhwani (pictured), networking analyst, Stifel Nicolaus likes Procera Networks, and "seems to be convinced the company is ahead of competitor Allot Communications in its product offering", according to Tiernan Ray, reporting to Tech Trader Daily.

"Procera does not believe that it is behind as far as building relationships with Verizon and AT&T. Verizon seems to be ahead of AT&T as far as interest in deploying DPI technology. In 2013, opportunities in the U.S. lie with cable operators and fixed line operators like Frontier and Windstream. The company believes that fixed line operators in the U.S. will start offering tiered services in 2013 using Procera (or other DPI) technology".

"The large tier-1 deal in Western Europe that the company won in early November was very competitive, with 12 vendors competing. Allot tried to use pricing to win the deal, however, Procera won on technical merits of its products .. While Allot has chosen to layer on services, such as video optimization and caching technology via acquisitions, Procera is likely to adopt a different approach (although the company was not willing to give any more details at this time)"

See "ARUN, CSCO, PKT Talk About WiFi, SDN, DPI, Says Stifel" - here.